This is a quick blog in remembrance of 9/11. Tommorow is the third year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Regardless of how you feel about the politics that followed, our society, our world was changed, with the murders of thousands of people in a short space of time.
As a soldier, I have been affected personally by the results that followed, and I think that there are very few in this country, that if they do not know someone who was personally affected on 9/11, were not moved deeply by the events of that day.
I thought that by now, I would be able to watch the footage from the attacks without deep emotional response, but I saw the footage again this morning and it was the same lump in my throat as three years ago, when I turned on the television to get the morning weather in Monterey where I was studying Korean at the Defense Language Institute and saw a burning hole in the side of the first tower.
I can't have a moment of silence on the internet, so this is a moment of remembrance; for those who died at work in their offices, to those who died trying to save others, to those who have died and continue to die to combat terrorism since 9/11, we remember you. I will never forget until the day that I die. You make me proud to be a soldier.
Spc. Nbs
Out of respect to those who died, I ask that there be no responses about politics, about the war, no flames, just take a moment as you read this to reflect on that day, or remember where you were and how you experienced it or a quick post that says I saw, I remember.